[Pmwiki-users] convert existing HTML to wiki
Dan
dan
Wed Jun 9 12:57:58 CDT 2004
I did find one webpage that does conversions, but it's not 100% compatable
with pmwiki.
http://diberri.dyndns.org/html2wiki.html
At 02:24 AM 6/10/2004, Steven Leite wrote:
>On Wednesday, June 09, 2004 7:06 AM [GMT+1=CET],
>Dan <dan at mcenter.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there a tool available that will convert an existing HTML document
> > to wiki format?
>
>No. I've contemplated writing a function for this - I'm working on a
>wysiwyg plug-in, and I need this same functionality, but it would be a
>lot of work, and it might only support 50% of the markup at first.
>Slowly over time it might eventually become more and more accurate, but
>everytime a new markup appears (or disappears, as in the upcoming
>version 2.0 of PmWiki), it would be a big pain to have to update all the
>logic. I've stalled this project for a while I wait for a big idea to
>hit me over the head.
>
>It would be doubly difficult with arbitrary html files because depending
>on which editor (or person) constructed the html file, the code, syntax
>or style might vary slightly. At least with an wysiwyg editor, you know
>exactly what it's formatting and style is, and you know what it's
>capabilities are, so you only need to account for a select number of
>translations.
>
>-S
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